So here’s a few more pictures from Andrea & Andy’s wedding this past weekend.  In my previous “teaser” post I alluded to the fact that there was a good story behind this first image……

….So we were walking back up the fairway at the Silver Lakes Country Club in Orland Park, when Andrea’s maid-of-honor, Maggie noticed a tree with some really curvy branches that might look pretty cool in a picture.  So rather than try something with looking up at the couple, with the curvy tree limbs behind them, I wanted to use the tree limbs as part of the foreground of the picture.  Only problem I’m not that tall, and getting up high enough to allow the branches to frame the image required climbing up in the tree……

So I did my best squirrel impression and figured out a way to boost myself up into the tree, along with my camera.  Only problem was the tree trunk had several flowering branches which also had some pretty mean looking thorns on them.  I thought I had avoided them all on the way up, as well as on the way down, but it turns out one of them loosely lodged itself on my pants, only to make its presence felt when I sat down a little later on!  It would’ve felt a lot worse if the shot didn’t quite work out.

I love this last picture because while so many couples run a slideshow of pictures at their reception, it’s often very difficult to make a good picture of the couple watching the show.   Either the screen is too far away from the bride & groom, or you wind up just seeing the backs of their heads.  Luckily the room at Silver Lake Country Club has mirrors on several of the walls, so I was able to frame this one up with the screen in the foreground, and show Andrea and Andy watching the slideshow by using their reflection in the mirror.